Written by Liam Moffat Directed by Gareth Nicholls Tickets from £12.00 ★★★ For anyone who has spent any portion of their day wading through discarded chew toys, endless strands of hair, or endured walks in the chucking rain and cleared up enough cat vomit than you thought a creature that size could produce - they’ll … Continue reading Review: Jack – A Play, Pie, and a Pint at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/d4IQuwxRLm0 Written by Caryl Churchill Directed by Joanna Bowman Review by Anna Burnside Tickets from £15.50 ★★★★ On a minimal set, a row of mottled legs end in well-used feet in comfortable sandals. Three women of bus pass-carrying age in mismatched chairs are drinking tea and discussing the things that absorb neighbours - the state of the … Continue reading Review: Escaped Alone – The Tron Theatre, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/T8GQUmNvdgA Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle Music and Lyrics by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth Tickets from £13.00 ★★★★★ Calendar Girls The Musical somehow still feels like a breath of fresh air in 2024, over twenty years since the real-life women of the Women’s Institute posed for their calendar in aid of charity. The Bill Kenwright LTD … Continue reading Review: Calendar Girls The Musical – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by David Greig Directed by Wils Wilson Tickets from £16.00 ★★ Nostalgia is a notoriously dangerous drug: addictive, encompassing, distracting, but oh-so nourishing. It clouds judgements and fractures our ability to move from the past and adapt - entirely apparent in David Greig’s new play Two Sisters, in a co-production with Malmö Stadsteater and the Royal Lyceum, … Continue reading Review: Two Sisters – The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Directed by Phee Simpson Musical Direction by Emily Phillips Tickets from £11.oo ★★★★ It would seem as though 1950s New York is too tantalising a decade for Edinburgh University’s theatre scene: stepping into the same realm as last year’s Shakespeare Company’s production of Julius Ceasar, Phee Simpson’s … Continue reading Review: Guys and Dolls: The Musical – Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh
Music by Harold Arlen Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Adapted by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Sams Directed by Nikolai Foster Tickets from £20.00 ★★★★ For those who thought the Edinburgh Playhouse’s fascination with the colour green had left with the departing for the smash-hit Wicked, … Continue reading Review: The Wizard of Oz – The Playhouse, Edinburgh
Book by Thomas Meehan Music by Charles Strouse Lyrics by Martin Charnin Directed by Nikolai Foster ★★★★ A pillar of the musical theatre world, Thomas Meehan’s adaptation of the little orphan Annie has found itself for nearly fifty years in numerous re-stagings and tours, winning awards and offering a sliver of saccharine joy amidst the bleakness of … Continue reading Annie – Edinburgh Playhouse
Book by Douglas McGrath Words and Music by Gerry Goffin & Carole King, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil Directed by Nikolai Foster ★★★★ Providing the soundtrack of a generation, singer and songwriter Carole King forged her path away from the expectations set upon her from an earlier age. King's life laid bare for the world to see, Beautiful the … Continue reading Beautiful: The Carole King Story – Festival Theatre
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey Directed by Nikolai Foster ★★★★ It’s 1959 - and who knows what the sixties will bring. In the states, Rock, Pop and Motown rule the roost with their intense and addictive tracks, while Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley have a lot to answer for with … Continue reading Grease – Festival Theatre
